different between stubble vs earsh

English

Etymology

Anglo-Norman stuble, estuble, from Old French estoble, esteule (whence Modern French éteule), from Latin stipula (“stalk, straw”). Cognate with Dutch stoppel, Central German Stoppel, Upper German Stupfel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?b.?l/
• Rhymes: -?b?l

Noun

stubble (usually uncountable, plural stubbles)

1. (countable and uncountable) Short, coarse hair, especially on a man’s face.
2. (countable and uncountable) The short stalks left in a field after crops have been harvested.

Synonyms

• (short hair on man’s face): five o'clock shadow
• stub
• stump

Related terms

• etiolate
• stipula

Translations

Verb

stubble (third-person singular simple present stubbles, present participle stubbling, simple past and past participle stubbled)

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English

Alternative forms

• arrish, arish, ersh, aish, airish, eddish, errish, hayrish, herrish

Etymology

From Middle English *ersch, from Old English ersc (“a park, preserve; stubble-field”).

Earsh (noun)(Old English ersc) was used in the south & west of England to describe a stubble field in which plant material – wheat, barley or rye- had been cut, leaving a short stubble or short stalks.

Noah Webster in Webster's Dictionary (1828) describes Earsh as a plowed (sic) field linking it to arrish but also to eadish which is described as latter pasture of grass that comes after mowing or reaping, called also eargrass, earsh, etch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æ??(?)/,

Noun

earsh (countable and uncountable, plural earshes)

1. (archaic) stubble field.
   • 1628 Fires oft are good on barren earshes made, With crackling flames to burn the stubble blade’ Translation of Georgics by Virgil, Thomas May,

Anagrams

• Asher, Rahes, Share, Shear, asher, hares, harse, hears, heras, rheas, sehar, sehra, share, shear